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Chicago examiner vol xii no 1 26 a m monday Chicago may 18 1914 monday registered m u s patent office price one cent s'ss-ps ksf four rescued after facing doom 2 weeks in lifeboat dying survivors from fire-de stroyed liner columbian taken aboard u s seneca 11 com rades succumb buried at sea wireless tells of finding craft by blue jackets and the saving of human wrecks too far gone to tell of the tragedy halifax x s may 17 - brief wire less message received here this after noon reports the finding by the u 8 revenue cutter seneca of the musing third lifeboat of the leylaud line steam ship columbian which was destroyed by fire m mid-atlantic just two weeks ago to-uigbt shoe leather for food xhe wireless report follows u s s seneca 10 a m 40 miles south of sable island â€” rescued lifeboat with officer robert tiere sailors austin ken dal peter belanger and fireman michael ludwigsen survivors of fifteen men from columbian others who died of exposure and starvation were engineer mar getts firemen anderson an tonio ricliman gustafson jakob oiler george hull cook schrimberger sailor christen sen and boy dyckmen leaving columbian men have only short allowance biscuit and water eat ing biscuit crumbs and boot leath er when rescued sighted three steamers first two days none since much rain all doing well under doctor's care signed johnson the seneca is now fading f or hali fax with the survivors those alive were the chief officer two seamen and a fire man these men were iv a terrible state of exhaustion wheu pleked up half crazed from thirst hunger and ex posure they presented an awful sight when the bluejackets from the seneca reached the side of the little craft survivors are helpless the men were helpless being scarcely ble to move hand or foot and tbeir voices had failed to a whisper they were m despair having given up all hope of rescue when the boat from the sen eca came to succor them tenderly they were lifted into the seneca's boat and all haste made for the cutter which had teamed close to the scene of the rosette the faces of the survivors worn and haggard were covered with long hair and their eyes had sunk clear into their heads xo attempt was made to get any detailed story from them they required the utmost care and attention and this was given them by the physician cap tain johnson the officers and all on board of the seneca buffeted by ice but it was not hard to divine the suf ierings these men had endured â€” there was neither food nor water on the boat for fourteen dreadful days and nights these four had been tossed about the ocean with wind and sea twisted buffet ed among ice floes which were encoun tered by the seneca the seneca's officers gathered too that some of that fifteen who sprang into t small boat^ad been so badly burned that they died within the first few days some who bad tumbled from i heir bnuks at the first explosion and had rushed on deck half clothed succumbed to the cold others weakened by starvation and thirst gradually sank iuto a lethargy that was scarcely distinguishable from death somehow the survivors managed to keep the boat head-on to the seas after putting the eleven who died overboard bill for ibe last tive days utile or no ef fort could be made to guide the craft day by day the number dwindled until the four who were left sank simply to the bottom of the boat and awaited the end rockefellers attend church under guard go to worship when no agitators appear new vobk _ ay 17 k0 agitators ap ih'aceil tit j n nt i'.i hills to-day and lohu ii rockefeller and his son went to fhunb guard linpd th entrance and were on duty at the church door newfc t'.ippr nieii could not approach vouug rockefeller and tlipy were not allowed m the l.yrritni wupip spei-i.il sprvlcps ijl-1(1 villages are wiped out by yukon flood j circle city submerged and u s wireless station wrecked tacoma wash mny 17 cables have teen received from fairbanks that circle cily eagle city and scores of wood choppers and miners camps with many native villages along the yukon above fort yukon have been submerged by the worst flood m be history of the north fears are entertained that fort yukon lias been swept away flood marks on the yukon show that the water m past decades rose more than a hundred feet when ice jammed m canyons or between hills circle city nd eagle city are only thirty feet above the yukon's normal level late cable dispatches say circle city was submerged thursday night two stores many dwellings and the govern ment wireless station were wrecked circle city streets are under two feet of water an li'.~.!nn village below circle city was wrecked da wsoi ' wharves and steamers were damaged when ihe flow swept past yacht party saved from night on lake knowledge of distress signals brings rescue a Chicago yachtsmen's knowledge of the distress signals of the Illinois naval re serve was all that saved a party of ten persons several of them members of the columbia yacht club from spending last night aboard the 40-foot yawl argo owned by james h rowley sr 833 drexel square a piece of driftwood jammed the rudder three miles from shore a both the rudder and propellor were broken when hope of attracting attention had been almost abandoned james h rowley jr with handkerchief signals caught the eye of the lookout m the tower of the life saving station near j the foot of randolph street captain charles carlaud put out iv a motor boat and towed the party ashore after it had been marooned two hours besides mr and mrs james rowley sr and mr rowley jr there were m the party miss florence rowley mr and mrs frederick rowley mrs george dudley harry and frederick edwards ', and miss pausey xesbitt plot to rob car lines is revealed conductors working with confederates are believed to have robbed street car companies m Chicago of perhaps thou sands of dollars by means ot false regis ters detective sergeant frank johusou yes terday arrested a man on au east-bound madisou street car standing near the conductor and carrying a suitcase iv a peculiar way the suitcase contaiued a register alleged stolen from the car the prisoner gave his name us george nichols and said he lived at 253 north western avenue investigation disclosed the conductor had fled it is believed that confederates of con ductors ha.c been substituting registers on heavily loaded cars and pocketing the difference between the amount actually rung up and that shown by the substi tute milwaukee v.m.c a bars the bachelor milwaukee wis may 17 the mil waukee young men's christian associa tion has come to the aid of copid con firmed bachelors are not to be permitted within the precincts of its dormitories four years may you remain here and no longer then yon must get married and get a home of your own ls the edict of c b willis general secretary to every young man m the building francis joseph is worse special cable to the examiner vienna may 17 emperor francis joseph who has been ill for several weeks with catarrh has been adversely affected hy cold wet weather his cough is troublesome and his sleep is dis turbed gunman squad fights mob at ghurgh fete i i r+undreds of men and women at tack three policemen when they make arrests officers battle way out two dead one dying is toll of revolvers m Chicago m one day i three members of - ' chief gleason's gunmen squad policemen james car ney patrick murphy and thomas swee neyâ€”were attacked by a mob of hun dreds of men and women last night at crosby and larrabee streets and had to fight their way out with revolvers and < clubs the crowd attacked them when they arrested sam bruvatau and sam bacniuo on a charge of carrying revolvers the men fought their way with their prison ers to a street car dragged their pris oners aboard and escaped also tliey took with them joe sartino who led the mob against them riot follows call for help the three policemen were sent to the all-day carnival given by an italian church and they went about the crowd looking for men with weapous when they felt revolvers m the pockets of bra vata nnd bachino they arrested them the prisoners sent up a cry in their own tongue and m a moment there was a riot lv progress the womeu were worse than the meu said one of the policemen after ward i had to knock half a dozen meu down with my billy and i had to hit more thau one woman it was as close a place as i've been m in many a i day ! two end lives one tries to two men killed themselves with re ! volvers and a girl shot herself fatally j yesterday mrs alva bouuy 744 boston aveuue is twenty years old i can't help what i am doing she wrote m a nqte to her mother she had been arrested satur day night iv a rooming house she was released on bond and went home deeply depressed m the depth of her gloom yesterday she went to a bureau pud took out a re volver which had been placed there for convenience she hot herself m the i chest and she is reported to be dying there was a note asking that her i mother care for my baby forgive i me the note ended porter routs gunmen isidore zabzilka a yonng man was . found dead m the back yard of his home i at 4514 laflin street beside him was a revolver one chamber empty a bul let was m the victims head james gray thirty years old was found m his room at 13 south halsted street there was a hole through his â– head from temple to temple beside the , body was a revolver , the porter joseph lal'lauu was , sweeping out a saloon at 2<>ol west ohio street early yesterday when two young , men entered and ordered beer as the ] porter drew the beer he saw two re j volvers in the hands of two men leveled j at him he attacked both men they j did not tire but after striking the porter t ran out , found dead in wires the body of a man was found entangled ln the electric wires over the twelfth street viaduct m south clark street early this morning he had been electrocuted the police have not yet identified him safe blown in childs while throngs pass , receptacle carried to basement and daylight robbers get 870 in plain view of the sunday daylight j throngs and with members of the police j department only half a block away rob bers carried a 1,000-pound safe from the cashier's counter m front of childs restaurant 7 west mouroe street to the freight elevator m the rear lowered it to the basement and then wrecked the door of the safe with nitroglycerin and escaped with 870 m currency the rob bery occurred between 10:30 a m and j:3o p 111 the sceeu is withiu mo feet of rector's cafe the police are holding joseph mitchell a private watchman pending an investi gation mitchell reported the robbery over the phone he said he had been painting a water tank 011 the roof since i<i:.'!ii m the morning how the robbers gained entrance the police do not know kxnmiuation of the door of the wrecked safe showed that the combination had been hammered off the explosive beiug used only as a last re sort â€¢ mexicans try to burn up refugees transport attempts to sink british ship sax fkancisco may 17 the brit ish steamer cetriana arrived m this port today bringing eighty-seven refugees from the west coast of mexico docks were fired by the federals m coutrol of manzanillo and a blazing oil ship bore upon the cetriana to accom plish its destruction and that of the american refugees aboard tbis plot was frustrated and the steamer was making its way to safety a mexican transport then bore down upon the british ship m an attempt to ram and sink it m open water the mex ican transport which was evaded with the greatest difficulty by the cetriana was laden with convicts in the confu sion and excitement these escaped by leading overboard and the mexicans ashore seeing this opportunity turned loose an indiscriminate rifle fire m the direction of the cetriana the cetriana finally escaped to sea without serious damage upward of a score of murders mostly of americans were reported by the cet riana's passengers the refugees reported the killing of c b hoadley and g e williams and said thnt the following were belle ted to have been killed iÃŸ'nlph r ramsdell j h james charles a kelso men named xel sou mcallister and ilidell arthur f flynt of minneapolis theodore jones h s windham w c dunn murray thomas tom fernandez otis hidden rosa morado otto lund wife and baby frank rodriguez of arizona and frank soto proceeding from manzuuillo to la paz the cetriana picked np arthur payne nnd the crew of the gasoliue yacht lola which sailed from san francisco and which was reported lost churchill loops the loop over water special cable to the examiner london may 17 winston churchill who already has been reproved by pre mier asquith tor his flying exploits took a further risk to-day hy looping the loop six times over the sea the first lord of tlie admiralty after entertaining the famous airman gustave haniel on lioard the admiralty yacht at sheeruess went as his passenger on a monoplane flight over the harbor m a northeast wind hamel describing six aerial loops with his distinguished pas senger bryan aid to quit department report washington may 17 reports pre clsely similar to those that preceded the resignation of john bassett moore as counsellor of the state department are now persistent with reference to assist ant secretary of state john osborne dr moore continued to enter diplomatic de nlals of his intention even after his let ter of withdrawal was on file at the white house secretary osborne denies that he intends to resign and lv fact says thnt the report is news to him two boys accused of killing escape jimmy breutnrla sixteen yeara old and emil roder fifteen charged with the murder of a restaurant counterman on april 1 escaped last night from tho ju venile home at 771 liflplii place they prled n bar off a window made a rope ol their bedding and slid to the ground the crime of which they are licensed was committed after midnight in the alamo restaurant wells and erie streets the pom iter nun wan found with a bullet in bin bean the cash register hail beeu rifled consul-general is dead uuiiuwk uhllblirth iw ul.rxla special cable to lti pxeirtner london may 17,-john 1 irliritlm i'nllpd states consul general lv london for the past tive yearn died suddenly lo night of haiirt failure ih had beeu tlllug for some time but bad been feeling better the pant few daya and waa out drltlÃŸg tbla-ftlteruoou sisters are killed by gas after help call wealthy realty man of rochester n v gets mysterious postal card and wire telling him to come to the city immediately relative finds aged women dead after breaking into beautiful washington boulevard home inquiry is on to-day frank croston wealthy real estate deal er of rochester s v received a postal card thursday from his aged cousin by marriage miss marietta wright it said come ns quick as you can i have something to tell you that i cannot write marietta he caught the first train for Chicago and rushed to the home of miss wright at 3055 washington boulevard he reached the house shortly after 8 a m yesterday with a neighbor he broke iuto the house and found miss wright and her older sister mrs emily backus dead the rooms were filled with gas which flowed from two open jets every step m the investigation which followed has brought to light newer and stranger facts which have combined to create one of the strangest mysteries ever cheek by joseph ashurst of ihe midway bank made to the order of the brookline bank which was marked 1 insufficient funds by the Chicago havings bank & trust company placed m the hands of the Chicago po lice 1 mystery m death the question which the coroner's jury will be asked to answer this moruing when it meets at the house is i>id the two women one seventy-three years old the other seventy-seven die m n suicide pact did one wait until the other was asleep and theu deliberately seek the death of both or were the two ! old womeu the victims of a plot by per idas who sought to gain tbeir fortune of more than 50,000 each by bringing about their death at this time the theory i that the two lives were lost through the accidental opening of the two gas jets has little to support it considering the mystery which sur rounded the lives of the two aged women is it not strange tbat even m death the authorities should be baffled to find an explanation to the last chapter of heir lives the two women were daughters of frederick wright who was born iv con necticut later he moved to rates mun roe county near rochester x jf then emily the older daughter married corne lius backus they moved to Chicago and mr backus for n number of years was ln business ln the loop district the great Chicago fire swept away everything he had he died the following year his widow sent for her sister marietta they lived together as the property which they owned ln Chicago and lv new york state increased in value they sold lt their bunk account which they kept ! lv rochester bnuks gradually lucreased : home beautifully furnished then about t wenty-tilno yean ago tbey built a km.ooo home on washington bou levard nearly opposite the wulfe mansion the house was tliolr prldo tho furni ture of the from room was the finest ma hogany the uiree fireplaces m the throe j large rooms of the ground floor were surrounded by onyx costing 1,1100 paint i lugs of the old homestead nt dates with war tluio lirtun nnd old-t * nbloiied pie ' tures covered lhe walls wax flowers lv glims cases adorned sma i table in hunt double bank losses depositors are mystified woman creditor is loyal forsberg of brookline institution blames ashurst of midway bank depositors tried in vain yesterday to learn ln a general way the extent of their losses caused by the twin failure of the brookline commercial & savings bank and the midway commercial & sav ngs bank bonlcs operated independently by partners all that the depositors could learn was that there had been n bewildering shifting of responsibility from one bnnk to the other and back again and that somewhere in between most of the cash had disappeared giving place to paper of dubious character joseph ashurst president of the mid way bank could â€¢ not â– be found and no indication could bo learned of where he was yr ]{. forsberg president of the brookline bunk was still at limue making efforts to explain what had happened but confessing that the situation was far from clear to him he however told au astonishing story of the methods by which tho two bunks co operated and extended rourte-iok one blames other i'orsberg blamed ashurst his partner and since ashurst had not elected to be presenl for his own defeose there was no ono te deny tho things that forsberg said ahout him forafcerg'h story u naive lu many feat ' miss hazel mitchell one of the de i positors who declares forsberg will i pay dollar for dollar w ]{. forsberg of the brookline commercial a savings bank who blamci his partner-in the midway institution for bank tangle huerta ill with cerebral attack : succeeds m keeping tampico de | feat from people despite his sickness 3y oliver maddox hueffer â– correspondent of the london daily 'â– express and Chicago examiner special cable to tha examiner vera cruz may it i have returned , here from mexico city after gettiug into trouble with the government ahout the message i dispatched from there report ing the fall of tampico to the rebels it is impossible to scud reliable news from the capital one of the cabinet ministers told me that huerta does not want any foreign journalist m the city as the mexican newspapers publish all that is necessary for the people to know ifonr american journalists are still m jail iv mexico city the editor of el linparclal told me the government requires hostages against the dissemination of american ilea all other americans and most of the british women and children have left the city it was rumored before i left the capi tal that huerta had committed suicide the story was founded on a sudden cere ! bml attack which the president suffered i while motoring thursday but it ls not | dangerous the el tj ls quiet but signs of antl j government feeling are increasing pant j phiers denouncing the president are be ing throw tt carriages lv the principal streets 1 was twice arrested erroneously as lt i wns afterwards explained to me subse i quently 1 wns followed by a detective 1 who made my aequ.ita uce aad tlndly i â€¢ offered not tv wurry me if i wotflftteto graiib reports the data ot whlcmf/3*f o uÂ»d ) ' supply b .. â€”â€žâ€ž mr*-ii_m-i m-i mexicans blow up bridge to block u.s last rail communication with capital destroyed by huerta while army pleads for chance to prevent fresh hostilities u.s forces will hold vera cruz until all factions agrie to peace and settled regime pro vides for protection of aliens bulletin vera cruz may 17 according to rumor the huerta forces are mass ing at tejeria where general navar rete has effected a junction with fed erals from tuxpam the waterworks at el tejar are reported to be threat ened again washington may 17 the san francisco bridge was destroyed today by mexican federal troops under gen eral maas and the most important link of transportation between vera cruz and the city of mexico has been broken the report of general fnnston on the destruction of the bridge lias added gravity to the situation and increased the comment on the ndniinistratiou'a policy of absolutely preventing any ac tion by the army of occupation ou the judgment and initiative of its c.iimuaii \ ers the federal activities arc taken a i an indication that back of huerta s seeming calm and sulimissl.ui to media tion is the tlrni intent ion to provoke hos tilities with the o tad states to count eract the continued rebel victories general fnnston reported to the wa department that it was rumored leuerat i navarette federal commander was m the vicinity of vera cruz with k.ooo men was important link the san francisco bridge ou the de struction of which general funston reported was twenty-eight miles ont of vera cruz and spanned hie river antigua it was 1(18 feet long and was one of the largest and most important bridges m mexico its destruction abso lutely cuts off all rail communication be tween vera cruz and meiico city hope was given to those who are urg " ing more warlike activities however when it was learned that five of the fif teen battleships at vera cruz will bo sent away from that port to-morrow for divi sional exercises and maneuvers this di f vision is composed of the virginia georgia nebraska new jersey and ver \ mont navy officers express the opinion that the division will cruise to the south and i will be m position if there should be a demand for emergency forces near pui erto mexico the chester and the ta coma have preceded the battleship divi sion to southern waters for the first time the full extent oi th 'â€¢ administration's purpose m the pending v mediation between the united states ana mexico became known to-day this is therefore the first inside md d formation as to the course the president 0 intends to pursue m the mexican crisis provided the other elements in the prob lem can be persuaded to refrain from pre ' cipitating actual war with this country aggression would end hopes s the present mediation as the presi dent understands it is extremely compre hensive it is also a continuing process ' its real object and necessarily its ulti mate object is a settlement of mexico's trouble by agreement among the zapata 1 carranza-villa and huerta factious and 1 the united states the troops of the united states which ! are now m possession ot vera cruz and ' such of the navy as may be needed will remain m mexico until ibis is brought ! about 1 in other words the united states will maintain its armed forces m vera â€¢ rus to see that the pacification of metxco is brought about by agreement between the local elemeuts and to see that tin debts owing the united states are paid this being the object of the president m keeping the troops iv vera cruz he will keep them there rejardless of whether huerta or carranza is m power at mexico city and m control of the j reins of government it explains also why secretary bryan attempts to minimize the importance ot the refusal of huerta to exp a wis -Â» li g ha penetl to vice and depnty oot â€” ' jo h sulimaii private pari anfl m wa.d deprtv doster correspondent mt a j th c-tcaip rxamtner again to-day e . tttarj f?Â«Â»toiÂ«r-'bls 4dmtrtjoih_i_t _*** contlnued-on^rvpngo sth column continued en 4th pÂ«9 'â€¢*â– column there were many good offerings of chicago's stores and shops m yesterday's examiner there are many good offerings m the exam iner this morning the examiner keeps you better posted so it is worth while following the advertising columns of the examiner each morning m every woman knows h ?*,_ that to shop successfully she must make her c money go as far as she possibly can to do \ ) xr tliis necessitates going from shop to shop yjj mm for hours oftentimes the result is a disap x pointed shopper and always a tired one Â¥_ v p the shoppers guide 1 ' appearing ij ** m the examiner every monday wednesday \'_\*. \ '< , â€¢ and friday is intended for the busy buyer ' 'â€¢' il who has little time to spend m hunting up hi ".^__\__ bargains the firms who advertise m these i_j_jf^i j columns by buying m large quantities t___\wf yfrn arc able to offer bargains that are a little fi^jfÂ£3||fc49f out-of-the-ordinary \ it will pay you to read the shoppers jsbi/s :( guide m the examiner even monday a _>> / wednesday and friday s!i>lj 3 au ixwimch i^^^^m bi â– ' *Â» ry^^^-v â€” j j_f Chicago and vicinity fair fyp â– ?) ~ \ monday and probably tuesday slow y 5 ly rising temperature moderate vari f s*ffl able breezes js^fes t kause of temperatures yesterday average 1

Chicago examiner vol xii no 1 26 a m monday Chicago may 18 1914 monday registered m u s patent office price one cent s'ss-ps ksf four rescued after facing doom 2 weeks in lifeboat dying survivors from fire-de stroyed liner columbian taken aboard u s seneca 11 com rades succumb buried at sea wireless tells of finding craft by blue jackets and the saving of human wrecks too far gone to tell of the tragedy halifax x s may 17 - brief wire less message received here this after noon reports the finding by the u 8 revenue cutter seneca of the musing third lifeboat of the leylaud line steam ship columbian which was destroyed by fire m mid-atlantic just two weeks ago to-uigbt shoe leather for food xhe wireless report follows u s s seneca 10 a m 40 miles south of sable island â€” rescued lifeboat with officer robert tiere sailors austin ken dal peter belanger and fireman michael ludwigsen survivors of fifteen men from columbian others who died of exposure and starvation were engineer mar getts firemen anderson an tonio ricliman gustafson jakob oiler george hull cook schrimberger sailor christen sen and boy dyckmen leaving columbian men have only short allowance biscuit and water eat ing biscuit crumbs and boot leath er when rescued sighted three steamers first two days none since much rain all doing well under doctor's care signed johnson the seneca is now fading f or hali fax with the survivors those alive were the chief officer two seamen and a fire man these men were iv a terrible state of exhaustion wheu pleked up half crazed from thirst hunger and ex posure they presented an awful sight when the bluejackets from the seneca reached the side of the little craft survivors are helpless the men were helpless being scarcely ble to move hand or foot and tbeir voices had failed to a whisper they were m despair having given up all hope of rescue when the boat from the sen eca came to succor them tenderly they were lifted into the seneca's boat and all haste made for the cutter which had teamed close to the scene of the rosette the faces of the survivors worn and haggard were covered with long hair and their eyes had sunk clear into their heads xo attempt was made to get any detailed story from them they required the utmost care and attention and this was given them by the physician cap tain johnson the officers and all on board of the seneca buffeted by ice but it was not hard to divine the suf ierings these men had endured â€” there was neither food nor water on the boat for fourteen dreadful days and nights these four had been tossed about the ocean with wind and sea twisted buffet ed among ice floes which were encoun tered by the seneca the seneca's officers gathered too that some of that fifteen who sprang into t small boat^ad been so badly burned that they died within the first few days some who bad tumbled from i heir bnuks at the first explosion and had rushed on deck half clothed succumbed to the cold others weakened by starvation and thirst gradually sank iuto a lethargy that was scarcely distinguishable from death somehow the survivors managed to keep the boat head-on to the seas after putting the eleven who died overboard bill for ibe last tive days utile or no ef fort could be made to guide the craft day by day the number dwindled until the four who were left sank simply to the bottom of the boat and awaited the end rockefellers attend church under guard go to worship when no agitators appear new vobk _ ay 17 k0 agitators ap ih'aceil tit j n nt i'.i hills to-day and lohu ii rockefeller and his son went to fhunb guard linpd th entrance and were on duty at the church door newfc t'.ippr nieii could not approach vouug rockefeller and tlipy were not allowed m the l.yrritni wupip spei-i.il sprvlcps ijl-1(1 villages are wiped out by yukon flood j circle city submerged and u s wireless station wrecked tacoma wash mny 17 cables have teen received from fairbanks that circle cily eagle city and scores of wood choppers and miners camps with many native villages along the yukon above fort yukon have been submerged by the worst flood m be history of the north fears are entertained that fort yukon lias been swept away flood marks on the yukon show that the water m past decades rose more than a hundred feet when ice jammed m canyons or between hills circle city nd eagle city are only thirty feet above the yukon's normal level late cable dispatches say circle city was submerged thursday night two stores many dwellings and the govern ment wireless station were wrecked circle city streets are under two feet of water an li'.~.!nn village below circle city was wrecked da wsoi ' wharves and steamers were damaged when ihe flow swept past yacht party saved from night on lake knowledge of distress signals brings rescue a Chicago yachtsmen's knowledge of the distress signals of the Illinois naval re serve was all that saved a party of ten persons several of them members of the columbia yacht club from spending last night aboard the 40-foot yawl argo owned by james h rowley sr 833 drexel square a piece of driftwood jammed the rudder three miles from shore a both the rudder and propellor were broken when hope of attracting attention had been almost abandoned james h rowley jr with handkerchief signals caught the eye of the lookout m the tower of the life saving station near j the foot of randolph street captain charles carlaud put out iv a motor boat and towed the party ashore after it had been marooned two hours besides mr and mrs james rowley sr and mr rowley jr there were m the party miss florence rowley mr and mrs frederick rowley mrs george dudley harry and frederick edwards ', and miss pausey xesbitt plot to rob car lines is revealed conductors working with confederates are believed to have robbed street car companies m Chicago of perhaps thou sands of dollars by means ot false regis ters detective sergeant frank johusou yes terday arrested a man on au east-bound madisou street car standing near the conductor and carrying a suitcase iv a peculiar way the suitcase contaiued a register alleged stolen from the car the prisoner gave his name us george nichols and said he lived at 253 north western avenue investigation disclosed the conductor had fled it is believed that confederates of con ductors ha.c been substituting registers on heavily loaded cars and pocketing the difference between the amount actually rung up and that shown by the substi tute milwaukee v.m.c a bars the bachelor milwaukee wis may 17 the mil waukee young men's christian associa tion has come to the aid of copid con firmed bachelors are not to be permitted within the precincts of its dormitories four years may you remain here and no longer then yon must get married and get a home of your own ls the edict of c b willis general secretary to every young man m the building francis joseph is worse special cable to the examiner vienna may 17 emperor francis joseph who has been ill for several weeks with catarrh has been adversely affected hy cold wet weather his cough is troublesome and his sleep is dis turbed gunman squad fights mob at ghurgh fete i i r+undreds of men and women at tack three policemen when they make arrests officers battle way out two dead one dying is toll of revolvers m Chicago m one day i three members of - ' chief gleason's gunmen squad policemen james car ney patrick murphy and thomas swee neyâ€”were attacked by a mob of hun dreds of men and women last night at crosby and larrabee streets and had to fight their way out with revolvers and < clubs the crowd attacked them when they arrested sam bruvatau and sam bacniuo on a charge of carrying revolvers the men fought their way with their prison ers to a street car dragged their pris oners aboard and escaped also tliey took with them joe sartino who led the mob against them riot follows call for help the three policemen were sent to the all-day carnival given by an italian church and they went about the crowd looking for men with weapous when they felt revolvers m the pockets of bra vata nnd bachino they arrested them the prisoners sent up a cry in their own tongue and m a moment there was a riot lv progress the womeu were worse than the meu said one of the policemen after ward i had to knock half a dozen meu down with my billy and i had to hit more thau one woman it was as close a place as i've been m in many a i day ! two end lives one tries to two men killed themselves with re ! volvers and a girl shot herself fatally j yesterday mrs alva bouuy 744 boston aveuue is twenty years old i can't help what i am doing she wrote m a nqte to her mother she had been arrested satur day night iv a rooming house she was released on bond and went home deeply depressed m the depth of her gloom yesterday she went to a bureau pud took out a re volver which had been placed there for convenience she hot herself m the i chest and she is reported to be dying there was a note asking that her i mother care for my baby forgive i me the note ended porter routs gunmen isidore zabzilka a yonng man was . found dead m the back yard of his home i at 4514 laflin street beside him was a revolver one chamber empty a bul let was m the victims head james gray thirty years old was found m his room at 13 south halsted street there was a hole through his â– head from temple to temple beside the , body was a revolver , the porter joseph lal'lauu was , sweeping out a saloon at 2<>ol west ohio street early yesterday when two young , men entered and ordered beer as the ] porter drew the beer he saw two re j volvers in the hands of two men leveled j at him he attacked both men they j did not tire but after striking the porter t ran out , found dead in wires the body of a man was found entangled ln the electric wires over the twelfth street viaduct m south clark street early this morning he had been electrocuted the police have not yet identified him safe blown in childs while throngs pass , receptacle carried to basement and daylight robbers get 870 in plain view of the sunday daylight j throngs and with members of the police j department only half a block away rob bers carried a 1,000-pound safe from the cashier's counter m front of childs restaurant 7 west mouroe street to the freight elevator m the rear lowered it to the basement and then wrecked the door of the safe with nitroglycerin and escaped with 870 m currency the rob bery occurred between 10:30 a m and j:3o p 111 the sceeu is withiu mo feet of rector's cafe the police are holding joseph mitchell a private watchman pending an investi gation mitchell reported the robbery over the phone he said he had been painting a water tank 011 the roof since iid the two women one seventy-three years old the other seventy-seven die m n suicide pact did one wait until the other was asleep and theu deliberately seek the death of both or were the two ! old womeu the victims of a plot by per idas who sought to gain tbeir fortune of more than 50,000 each by bringing about their death at this time the theory i that the two lives were lost through the accidental opening of the two gas jets has little to support it considering the mystery which sur rounded the lives of the two aged women is it not strange tbat even m death the authorities should be baffled to find an explanation to the last chapter of heir lives the two women were daughters of frederick wright who was born iv con necticut later he moved to rates mun roe county near rochester x jf then emily the older daughter married corne lius backus they moved to Chicago and mr backus for n number of years was ln business ln the loop district the great Chicago fire swept away everything he had he died the following year his widow sent for her sister marietta they lived together as the property which they owned ln Chicago and lv new york state increased in value they sold lt their bunk account which they kept ! lv rochester bnuks gradually lucreased : home beautifully furnished then about t wenty-tilno yean ago tbey built a km.ooo home on washington bou levard nearly opposite the wulfe mansion the house was tliolr prldo tho furni ture of the from room was the finest ma hogany the uiree fireplaces m the throe j large rooms of the ground floor were surrounded by onyx costing 1,1100 paint i lugs of the old homestead nt dates with war tluio lirtun nnd old-t * nbloiied pie ' tures covered lhe walls wax flowers lv glims cases adorned sma i table in hunt double bank losses depositors are mystified woman creditor is loyal forsberg of brookline institution blames ashurst of midway bank depositors tried in vain yesterday to learn ln a general way the extent of their losses caused by the twin failure of the brookline commercial & savings bank and the midway commercial & sav ngs bank bonlcs operated independently by partners all that the depositors could learn was that there had been n bewildering shifting of responsibility from one bnnk to the other and back again and that somewhere in between most of the cash had disappeared giving place to paper of dubious character joseph ashurst president of the mid way bank could â€¢ not â– be found and no indication could bo learned of where he was yr ]{. forsberg president of the brookline bunk was still at limue making efforts to explain what had happened but confessing that the situation was far from clear to him he however told au astonishing story of the methods by which tho two bunks co operated and extended rourte-iok one blames other i'orsberg blamed ashurst his partner and since ashurst had not elected to be presenl for his own defeose there was no ono te deny tho things that forsberg said ahout him forafcerg'h story u naive lu many feat ' miss hazel mitchell one of the de i positors who declares forsberg will i pay dollar for dollar w ]{. forsberg of the brookline commercial a savings bank who blamci his partner-in the midway institution for bank tangle huerta ill with cerebral attack : succeeds m keeping tampico de | feat from people despite his sickness 3y oliver maddox hueffer â– correspondent of the london daily 'â– express and Chicago examiner special cable to tha examiner vera cruz may it i have returned , here from mexico city after gettiug into trouble with the government ahout the message i dispatched from there report ing the fall of tampico to the rebels it is impossible to scud reliable news from the capital one of the cabinet ministers told me that huerta does not want any foreign journalist m the city as the mexican newspapers publish all that is necessary for the people to know ifonr american journalists are still m jail iv mexico city the editor of el linparclal told me the government requires hostages against the dissemination of american ilea all other americans and most of the british women and children have left the city it was rumored before i left the capi tal that huerta had committed suicide the story was founded on a sudden cere ! bml attack which the president suffered i while motoring thursday but it ls not | dangerous the el tj ls quiet but signs of antl j government feeling are increasing pant j phiers denouncing the president are be ing throw tt carriages lv the principal streets 1 was twice arrested erroneously as lt i wns afterwards explained to me subse i quently 1 wns followed by a detective 1 who made my aequ.ita uce aad tlndly i â€¢ offered not tv wurry me if i wotflftteto graiib reports the data ot whlcmf/3*f o uÂ»d ) ' supply b .. â€”â€žâ€ž mr*-ii_m-i m-i mexicans blow up bridge to block u.s last rail communication with capital destroyed by huerta while army pleads for chance to prevent fresh hostilities u.s forces will hold vera cruz until all factions agrie to peace and settled regime pro vides for protection of aliens bulletin vera cruz may 17 according to rumor the huerta forces are mass ing at tejeria where general navar rete has effected a junction with fed erals from tuxpam the waterworks at el tejar are reported to be threat ened again washington may 17 the san francisco bridge was destroyed today by mexican federal troops under gen eral maas and the most important link of transportation between vera cruz and the city of mexico has been broken the report of general fnnston on the destruction of the bridge lias added gravity to the situation and increased the comment on the ndniinistratiou'a policy of absolutely preventing any ac tion by the army of occupation ou the judgment and initiative of its c.iimuaii \ ers the federal activities arc taken a i an indication that back of huerta s seeming calm and sulimissl.ui to media tion is the tlrni intent ion to provoke hos tilities with the o tad states to count eract the continued rebel victories general fnnston reported to the wa department that it was rumored leuerat i navarette federal commander was m the vicinity of vera cruz with k.ooo men was important link the san francisco bridge ou the de struction of which general funston reported was twenty-eight miles ont of vera cruz and spanned hie river antigua it was 1(18 feet long and was one of the largest and most important bridges m mexico its destruction abso lutely cuts off all rail communication be tween vera cruz and meiico city hope was given to those who are urg " ing more warlike activities however when it was learned that five of the fif teen battleships at vera cruz will bo sent away from that port to-morrow for divi sional exercises and maneuvers this di f vision is composed of the virginia georgia nebraska new jersey and ver \ mont navy officers express the opinion that the division will cruise to the south and i will be m position if there should be a demand for emergency forces near pui erto mexico the chester and the ta coma have preceded the battleship divi sion to southern waters for the first time the full extent oi th 'â€¢ administration's purpose m the pending v mediation between the united states ana mexico became known to-day this is therefore the first inside md d formation as to the course the president 0 intends to pursue m the mexican crisis provided the other elements in the prob lem can be persuaded to refrain from pre ' cipitating actual war with this country aggression would end hopes s the present mediation as the presi dent understands it is extremely compre hensive it is also a continuing process ' its real object and necessarily its ulti mate object is a settlement of mexico's trouble by agreement among the zapata 1 carranza-villa and huerta factious and 1 the united states the troops of the united states which ! are now m possession ot vera cruz and ' such of the navy as may be needed will remain m mexico until ibis is brought ! about 1 in other words the united states will maintain its armed forces m vera â€¢ rus to see that the pacification of metxco is brought about by agreement between the local elemeuts and to see that tin debts owing the united states are paid this being the object of the president m keeping the troops iv vera cruz he will keep them there rejardless of whether huerta or carranza is m power at mexico city and m control of the j reins of government it explains also why secretary bryan attempts to minimize the importance ot the refusal of huerta to exp a wis -Â» li g ha penetl to vice and depnty oot â€” ' jo h sulimaii private pari anfl m wa.d deprtv doster correspondent mt a j th c-tcaip rxamtner again to-day e . tttarj f?Â«Â»toiÂ«r-'bls 4dmtrtjoih_i_t _*** contlnued-on^rvpngo sth column continued en 4th pÂ«9 'â€¢*â– column there were many good offerings of chicago's stores and shops m yesterday's examiner there are many good offerings m the exam iner this morning the examiner keeps you better posted so it is worth while following the advertising columns of the examiner each morning m every woman knows h ?*,_ that to shop successfully she must make her c money go as far as she possibly can to do \ ) xr tliis necessitates going from shop to shop yjj mm for hours oftentimes the result is a disap x pointed shopper and always a tired one Â¥_ v p the shoppers guide 1 ' appearing ij ** m the examiner every monday wednesday \'_\*. \ '< , â€¢ and friday is intended for the busy buyer ' 'â€¢' il who has little time to spend m hunting up hi ".^__\__ bargains the firms who advertise m these i_j_jf^i j columns by buying m large quantities t___\wf yfrn arc able to offer bargains that are a little fi^jfÂ£3||fc49f out-of-the-ordinary \ it will pay you to read the shoppers jsbi/s :( guide m the examiner even monday a _>> / wednesday and friday s!i>lj 3 au ixwimch i^^^^m bi â– ' *Â» ry^^^-v â€” j j_f Chicago and vicinity fair fyp â– ?) ~ \ monday and probably tuesday slow y 5 ly rising temperature moderate vari f s*ffl able breezes js^fes t kause of temperatures yesterday average 1